US superpower status is shaken

After the end of the Cold War and demise of  Russian empire America remained the only big superpower but it seems latest development in the financial world and on the other fronts have shaken its position....

Picasso masterpiece to be sold by Sotheby's

Arlequin is considered one of Picasso's most important works and has been in the possesion of Surrealist artist Enrico Donati, who died earlier this year, for 50 years. It hasn't been seen by the public for over...

Obama competitive against McCain with key voters

" By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago ...

Battlestar Galactica Final Season Airs Today on the Internet First

Well for online viewers, BattleStar Galactica season 4 starts this afternoon. For those of you in tv-land, you'll have to wait until this evening when the first episode of the final season airs on the Sci-Fi...

Teams separated by only one game in Big Ten standings

"THE SETTING The Iowa Hawkeyes (17-7, 10-3) will gun for their ninth-consecutive victory Thursday night when they travel to West Lafayette, IN, to face the Purdue Boilermakers (13-11, 9-4) for a pivotal showdown. Tip-off is slated for 6:05 p.m. (CST) at Mackey Arena. Iowa...

Avastin Receives Positive Opinion in Europe for First-Line Treatment of Advan...

""The AVOREN study has shown us that Avastin is an effective and safe treatment for patients with kidney cancer," said Professor Bernard Escudier, Head of Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapy Unit, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Paris, France and Principal Investigator of the...

A Critical Choice - The Fate of the Republican Party Hangs on Bush's Veto

"It has been 95 days since the Democratic Party took over control of the United States Congress. Though Pelosi's "First Hundred Hours" agenda met with success, the term of the 110th Congress has been bogged down...

A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

"Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to...

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